Title: DFAS at War Expeditionary Support
1DFAS at WarExpeditionary Support
- Tim Kuhl
- Director, Expeditionary Support Organization
(ESO) - DFAS-Indianapolis
2Agenda
- Single Point of Entry into DFAS
- ESO Org Structure Staff Theater Experience
- Expeditionary Support Organization (ESO) Mission
Statement - Targets of Opportunity
- Phased Approach
- DFAS Civilian Expeditionary Workforce
- Scope of Support for Theater
- Summary of DFAS In-Theater Support
- Spectrum of Military Operations
- What to Expect if Deployed as a DoD Civilian
3Single Point of Entry
- Jan 08 Request from Army that DFAS establish a
single point of entry for all contingency /
expeditionary operations - Align theater liaison and finance support efforts
within DFAS - Coordinate efforts with Army to supplement
sustainment training and tactical initiatives - 2 Governance Structures
- Overseas Contingency Operations (formally known
as GWOT) Senior Steering Group (SSG) - Expeditionary Finance Advisory Board (FAB)
- Members consist of former and current Theater
Commanders at the Colonel and General officer
levels - Representation from military services
- Sep 08 ESO structure approved operational
4Mission Statement
- The DFAS Expeditionary Support Organization
(ESO) provides deployable general finance and
accounting expertise to Military Components
during contingency operations while delivering
critical human, accurate, real-time pay account
support/education to Wounded Warriors and their
family members
5Single Point of Entry
- DFAS ESO
- Responsible for coordinating and leading DFAS
theater support liaison capabilities in
coordination with components and US government
agencies - Responsible for coordinating within DFAS on
theater initiatives
6ESO Staff Theater Experience
- Permanent ESO staff possesses valuable working
knowledge of the realities facing theater
operations - Over 5 years of collective in-theater Finance
Accounting support experience - Over 2,000 hours of TDY experience spent
in-theater supporting expeditionary Finance
Accounting initiatives - Theater experience a hiring factor on staffing
actions
7ESO Contingency Improvement Targets of
Opportunity
- Retrograde theater/contingency Finance
Accounting functions back to CONUS - Permit theater commands to re-allocate soldiers
and resources to other mission-critical efforts - Primary Focus Commercial Vendor Services,
Disbursing operations, and other back-office
support/reconciliatory functions - Support multi-agency theater improvement
workgroup efforts - Pre-deployment and enhanced sustainment training
to finance soldiers and civilians - Improve contingency-wide systems and resource
management capabilities - Evaluate possible ways to leverage and improve
Theater banking infrastructure - Removal of the U.S. Dollar from the battlefield
8Phased Approach to DFAS ESO Support
- Shape, Deter and Seize the Initiative Phase
- Early in the conflict it is understood that
tactical finance forces will be the primary
service provider to the Commander - Dominate Phase
- As the theater matures and active conflict
subsides, more emphasis can be placed on making
processes and procedures more efficient and
effective - Stabilize and Enable Civil Authority Phase
- As the consolidation continues to occur and the
security environment improves, civilian support
can be introduced in-theater to support the
various financial management functions,
especially as related to the joint contracting
arena - Phases are in accordance with Joint Publication
1-06, Appendix B.
9Expeditionary Support Organization DFAS Civilian
Expeditionary Workforce
Interview/Pre-screen
Deployment Rotation
- Deployed DFAS civilians
- Gain valuable experience working in high
operational tempo environments - Cultivate customer relationships that benefit the
DFAS mission and improve communication ties with
deployed elements - Possess situational awareness, critical
application skills to overcome challenges, and
the flexibility to adapt to mission directives
Welcome Home! Recognition/Medal
Return to Home Station
Integrity - Service - Innovation
11/15/2009
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10Expeditionary Support Organization Overseas
Contingency Operations Support
- Afghanistan
- Combined Security Transition Command (CSTC-A)
- Bagram, Kabul J8, Kandahar J8, Joint Contracting
Command - 7 Personnel in various support cells
- Iraq
- Multinational Security Transition Command
(MNSTC-I) - 4 Personnel
- Multinational Corps (MNC-I)
- 3 Personnel
- Camp Victory
- 2 Personnel
- Kuwait
- Army Central Command (ARCENT)
- 5 Managerial Accountants
- 4 Systems Accountants
- 1 Banking
- 2 Vendor Pay
28 Deployed Civilians
11Scope of Support for Theater Accounting RM
- DFAS Theater Team Lead in Kuwait
- Co-located with 18th FMC and ARCENT RM Director
- Fund Execution Status of Funding
- Commit and obligate funds
- Accept/Issue MIPRS
- Participate in joint reviews
- Clear current and prior year unliquidated
obligations (ULOs) - Contract Reconciliation Functions
- Obtain documentation to close accounting lines
- Forward contract modifications and receiving
reports to payment offices, resource managers,
contracting officials - Quality Assurance/Quality Control Support
- Audit oversight and monitoring
12Scope of Support for Theater Finance
- Vendor Pay
- On-site Subject Matter Experts
- Scanning of retrograded payments to DFAS Rome
- Support DFAS Rome requests for assistance
- Civilian Pay
- Standardizing civilian pay procedures across
components - Military Pay
- Support deployed military finance offices
- Reconcile casual pay discrepancies
- Timely starting and stopping pay entitlements
13Scope of Support for Theater System Improvements
- DFAS providing Accountants / Accounting
Technicians to Director, Resource Management,
ARCENT - Deploying DFAS personnel in support of
- Wide Area Work Flow (WAWF)
- Defense Travel System (DTS)
- Resource Management Tool (RMT)
- Operational Data Storage (ODS)
- SPS to CAPS-C system interface
- Deployable Disbursing System Implementation
- Honduras
- Sinai
- Electronic File Room (EFR)
14DFAS In-Theater Support Update
- Retrograded Kuwait EFT vendor payment to DFAS
Rome March 2008 - Retrograded Joint Contracting Command (JCC)
contracts with EFT payments over 50K to DFAS
Rome August 2008 - Lowering Iraq EFT Vendor Pay contract threshold
from 50K, 25K, to 5K - Coordinating with JCC to apply same EFT
procedures to Afghanistan - Lucky Strike Exercise Participation December
2008 - Lucky Warrior Exercise Participation May 25
10 June 2009 - Deployable Disbursing System (DDS) implemented in
Honduras under DFAS Disbursing Officer April
2009 - JCC contract closeout mission in San Antonio, TX
May 2009 - Continue closing out contracts in Theater
- Stood up Civilian Pay liaison in Iraq April
2009 - Standing up Civilian Pay liaison support in
Afghanistan - Continue current and prior year ULO
reconciliation analysis - ESO goal to save the Military Components more
then the DFAS bill
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